PROJECTS
A main component of the work of the Consortium is project implementation.
This second goal works with a system built to identify projects that are responsive to research gaps in the field of violence against women. Projects are proposed to the Consortium team, processed, and approved alongside NIJ partners. Projects operate on a timeline appropriate for their topic and utilize the best science available with scholars from across the United States, pulling on a vast network of expertise to tackle the most pressing issues in the field.
This project has implications for practice. Findings have the potential to highlight the traumatic events that may contribute to sexual and gender minority youths’ decisions to engage in survival sex.
Understanding context is important to the research community but is also important for law enforcement, who may be tasked with investigating cases of teen dating violence.
There is a limited evidence base on prevalence of sexual violence among Latinx students and rates for formal disclosure and reporting to law enforcement among survivors.
The use of opioids has increased rapidly, leading to a public health crisis with a series of consequences and concerns for individuals, families, communities and formal care and criminal justice systems.
Research to date has shown that officers have a limited understanding of stalking within the context of domestic violence. Even more, few cases are referred to prosecutors and even fewer result in convictions for stalking.
Coordinated community responses to violence against women have been implemented since the 1970s, yet evaluations on the effectiveness of these programs have been limited.